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Jude P
@judepickledplum.bsky.social
Tea drinking fool, storyteller, humanist. Easily distracted by cats and reverb. Quiet voice, loud hands. Likes writers, books and awful puns.
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We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Delighted to be in the latest issue of WestWord (and alongside some other wonderful pieces from brilliant writers) with this little story from earlier this year:

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On Leaving a Familiar Place
A Micro Fiction by Jo Clark
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November 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Very proud that my story about deep cleaners is out in Gooseberry Pie today 😁 gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/
Issue 37 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Kathryn Kulpa Stories
gooseberry-pie.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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"Never Wear Heels on a Date" by Emily J. Edwards ... today at Punk Noir Magazine. Have a read.
Never Wear Heels on a Date by Emily J. Edwards
from TIGHTROPE: a PUNK NOIR Magazine series
www.punknoir.online
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Can we please end this culture where all companies you interact with are like needy teenagers in the throes of their first crush...do you like me? Do you really like me? Why don't you love me? Even my email account has started asking for feedback. It's exhausting.
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Exciting!
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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And now 🥁 launching her book Cold Toast it is @kazbarwrites.bsky.social

Buy it here
www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/cold...
October 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Looked at myself in the mirror before leaving for work. Realised I'm channeling 'substitute art teacher, circa 1987' - coloured jeans, DMs with ribbon laces, v neck sweater with roll neck under, multicoloured bead necklace. That's my vibe, apparently.
October 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Telling you, people of the ether, so I don't forget: my shopping is coming between 7-8am tomorrow, not after work. Hopefully I'll remember now I've told you.
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Tragedy has befallen me...I have had to throw away teabags because they WENT MOULDY. The box was damp when it was delivered, so I was suspicious of them at first. But they lured me into a false sense of security by tasting ok for the first week. Then I had two manky cups of tea, & found mouldy bags
a cartoon bear with the words tragedy brah written below it
ALT: a cartoon bear with the words tragedy brah written below it
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October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I’m so completely chuffed to be part of Bull 🖤
"They promised to call us, their first loves, but we’d already packed away our broken hearts with our childhood bears. We’d already packed away our Big Dreams for ourselves, our futures—shattered as metal and bone in a box marked Goodwill." @therelphian.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
October 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Today is the most Mondayish sort of Monday. Oozing with it.
October 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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The time of Spook and Ghoul is ever closer - a good time therefore to creep yourself out with a bumper read of short fictions full of darkliness.
Available for less than ten English poundlets, it opens with Wigleaf longlisted piece - A Whisper of Before.
mybook.to/SickInkColle...
October 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Here it is!

The last part of Hypochondria is available to read, completely for free, now on sarahrnew.wordpress.com/hypochondria.

For everyone who has read along and taken part in Emma's journey, thank you for reading.
Hypochondria
Hypochondria is the story of Emma, a young woman who becomes possessed by hypochondriac thoughts after the traumatic death of her mother. Whilst trapped in a spiral of anxiety and&nb…
sarahrnew.wordpress.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Well here's something I didn't know I needed until it arrived.
✨ The first episode has arrived! ✨

Very excited to introduce the first episode in my new flash fiction film series ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’! 🕰️

If you have a minute and a half to spare, I’d love for you to check it out!

youtu.be/scAoxNryyVA
The Time Pirate | Episode 1: The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore
YouTube video by jenwithwords
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October 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What if there was a Halloween version of the elf on the shelf...I can't think of a rhyming name but a troll or a demon that peeks out from unexpected places and threatens you with hauntings and poltergeists and possible eternal damnation. I'd find that much more fun.
October 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My Facebook memory from 3 years ago (TBH still not sure): 'Very chaotic call with O2. May have upgraded my phone & cancelled the contract for the tablet I never use. May have just agreed on a contract to end the universe, in which case upgrading that phone was a waste of time'
a man holding a box that says the end near
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October 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Ada Lovelace Day has begun! As midnight arrives on Kiritimati Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, our global celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths begins! Join us in celebrating by posting about your fave women in STEM #ALD25!
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Oblivious To Everything But The Beat by @judepickledplum.bsky.social
Resonant and deeply affecting, Jude captures assault and dissociation with powerful authenticity. It's a raw, visceral piece, told with unflinching realism.
CW: sexual assault
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October 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Today I've booked tickets to 3 exhibitions for the end of next month, and my inner nerd (fairly outer tbh) is in heaven...Secret Maps, Mudlarking and PIRATES. Plus a Writing From Rage workshop and an Open Mic (for details see@saloneurope.bsky.social ). I'll be intolerably excited by mid-November.
a black and white dog standing in front of a gray brick wall
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October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Three amazing charity anthology projects just landed...
My own Silent Screams antho, plus collections from @sasharavitch.bsky.social & @therelphian.bsky.social of @trashcatlit.bsky.social
Read all about them here:
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October 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show
bylinetimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM